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5 <mods:title>Manual to the palms of Ecuador
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7 <mods:name type=
"personal">
8 <mods:namePart type=
"family">Borchsenius
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9 <mods:namePart type=
"given">F.
</mods:namePart>
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"text">author
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12 <roleTerm type=
"code">aut
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15 <mods:name type=
"personal">
16 <mods:namePart type=
"family">Pedersen
</mods:namePart>
17 <mods:namePart type=
"given">H.B.
</mods:namePart>
19 <roleTerm type=
"text">author
</roleTerm>
20 <roleTerm type=
"code">aut
</roleTerm>
23 <mods:name type=
"personal">
24 <mods:namePart type=
"family">Balslev
</mods:namePart>
25 <mods:namePart type=
"given">H.
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27 <roleTerm type=
"text">author
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28 <roleTerm type=
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32 <mods:publisher>AAU Reports
37. Department of Systematic Botany, University of Aarhus, Denmark in collaboration with Pontificia Universidad Cat�lica del Ecuador
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33 <mods:dateIssued>1998</mods:dateIssued>
38 <treatment rank=
"species">
40 <name>Astrocaryum standleyanum
</name>
41 <author>L.H.Bailey
</author>
42 <citation>Gentes Herb.
3:
88 (
1933)
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44 <div type=
"introduction"><p></p></div>
45 <div type=
"etymology"><p></p></div>
46 <div type=
"vernacular"><p></p></div>
47 <div type=
"description"><p>Subcanopy palm. Stem solitary, to
15 m tall and
30 cm in diameter, armed with long black spines, often with one or more dead leaves hanging from the crown. Leaves forming a funnel or umbrella shaped crown, erect and arching, to
5 m long; pinnae ca.
100 on each side, arranged in groups of
2-
5 and spreading in different planes, the central ones to
110 cm long and
3.5 cm wide. Inflorescences erect to arching, cream coloured, to
150 cm long; branches to
200, each with
3-
5 female flowers on the basal part. Male flowers ca.
4 mm long. Female flowers
6-
8 mm long including stigmas. Fruits obovoid, greyish green, turning orange at maturity,
5-
6 cm long.
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48 <div type=
"distribution"><p>Central America to Ecuador W of the Andes, to
900 m elevation, but usually at lower altitudes, in non-inundated areas.
49 Distribution in Ecuador. Common in somewhat seasonal, tropical moist forest in W Ecuador.
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50 <div type=
"biology_ecology"><p></p></div>
51 <div type=
"conservation"><p></p></div>
52 <div type=
"uses"><p></p></div>
53 <div type=
"discussion"><p></p></div>
54 <div type=
"materials_examined"><p></p></div>